Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

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Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.
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Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
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London :: Printed by J.T. for Francis Eglesfield ...,
1658.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34011.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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For scabbinesse and Itch.

Take water of Betony two good handfuls, daisie leaves & Alehoof, otherwise called Jud∣mur or ground ivy, of each one handful, the red Dock roots two or three, stamp them all toge∣ther ad ginde them well, then mingle them with fresh grease and again stamp them, Let

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them so stand eight dayes to putrifie till it be hoar, then fy them, and strain them out and keep for the same intent; This ointment hath geat effect both in young and old, and that without repercussion or driving back of the matter, which should be a perilous thing for a young child. The water Betony alone is a geat Medicine to quench all unkindly heats without danger, or the seething of it in clear well water to anoint the Members.

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